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arational, a. (and n.)|eɪˈræʃənəl|
[f. a- 14 + rational a.]
That does not purport to be rational; not governed by the laws of reason, non-rational. Also ellipt. as n.
1935Mind XLIV. 265 Absolute justice though a necessary concept, is indefinable: it is an ‘a-rational ideal’, and thus beyond the scope of science which is reason applied to facts of experience. 1955Bull. Atomic Sci. May 193/2 The gradual transition of humanity from this ‘arational’ behavior to the more ‘rational’ of our times. 1970E. de Bono Lateral Thinking xx. 226 PO may be used to produce arrangements of information that are unreasonable but they are not really unreasonable because lateral thinking functions in a different way from vertical thinking. Lateral thinking is not irrational but arational. 1972Science 16 June 1209/3 The irrational, or, better yet, the arational, will not disappear from the human situation. 1982Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 465/5 There is an equally obvious mystique: a set of arational (but not necessarily irrational) attitudes that are inculcated by gossip and habit and movies. |